Introductions and Set Up
Third year in the GVPT PhD program
Focus on secessionist conflict and dependence between states and non-state actors.
Before starting my PhD:
Helped to develop the Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index
Analyst with the Australian Department of Defence
Worked on the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Global Peace Index and Global Terrorism Index
Favourite Smithsonian: the zoo!
Introduction to R and friends
Getting your computers set up
Homebrew (macOS or Linux only)
R and RStudio
Git and GitHub
Go to https://brew.sh/
Follow instructions on the homepage
R is a free and open-source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language.
Source: R4DS
Git is a version control system used for tracking changes in software development projects.
GitHub is a web-based platform for version control and collaborative software development using Git.
This morning you:
Learnt about new data science tools to help you conduct replicable and reproducable political science research
Set up your data science tools